Hook up with a gardening buddy - Share seeds, tools, a tiller, and buy bulk products that you can split such as potting soil. Join a local garden club or check with your extension office to find a garden buddy. Approach like-minded neighbors about sharing costs of bulk items or machinery rental fees.Buy When Prices are Low - perennials in the fall, for example, and trees, shrubs, mulch & soil are all less expensive late in the season. Lumber is less expensive in the winter - if you are planning to build raised beds (buy untreated lumber).
Check building sites - Get permission to look closely at a building plot where they are clearing trees and vegetation. Check over the land for small trees and plants.
Make your fertilizer for next spring - Why have your grass clippings, leaves, and garbage hauled away - then buy fertilizer? Make a compost pile for next to nothing - with some recycled chicken wire, old hay bales, etc.
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